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Poe Clue # 7
When Poe left Richmond, he took the wrong walking stick and forgot his luggage.
On this evening he sat for some time talking, while playing with a handsome Malacca sword-cane recently presented to me by a friend, and then, abruptly rising, said, 'I think I will step over to Saddler's (a popular restaurant in the neighborhood) for a few moments,' and so left without any further word, having my cane still in his hand. From this manner of departure I inferred that he expected to return shortly, but did not see him again, and was surprised to learn next day that he had left for Baltimore by the early morning boat. I then called on Saddler, who informed me that Poe had left his house at exactly twelve that night, starting for the Baltimore boat in company with several companions whom he had met at Saddler's, and giving as a reason therefore the lateness of the hour and the fact that the boat was to leave at four o'clock.According to Saddler he was in good spirits and sober, though it is certain that he had been drinking and that he seemed oblivious of his baggage, which had been left in his room at the Swan Tavern. These effects were after his death forwarded by one of Mrs. Mackenzie's sons to Mrs. Clemm in New York, and through the same source I received my cane, which Poe in his absent-mindedness had taken away from him. --Dr. John Carter (Poe's friend), "Edgar Poe's Last Night in Richmond." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, November 1902.
Poe Clue # 7
When Poe left Richmond, he took the wrong walking stick and forgot his luggage.
On this evening he sat for some time talking, while playing with a handsome Malacca sword-cane recently presented to me by a friend, and then, abruptly rising, said, 'I think I will step over to Saddler's (a popular restaurant in the neighborhood) for a few moments,' and so left without any further word, having my cane still in his hand. From this manner of departure I inferred that he expected to return shortly, but did not see him again, and was surprised to learn next day that he had left for Baltimore by the early morning boat. I then called on Saddler, who informed me that Poe had left his house at exactly twelve that night, starting for the Baltimore boat in company with several companions whom he had met at Saddler's, and giving as a reason therefore the lateness of the hour and the fact that the boat was to leave at four o'clock.According to Saddler he was in good spirits and sober, though it is certain that he had been drinking and that he seemed oblivious of his baggage, which had been left in his room at the Swan Tavern. These effects were after his death forwarded by one of Mrs. Mackenzie's sons to Mrs. Clemm in New York, and through the same source I received my cane, which Poe in his absent-mindedness had taken away from him.
--Dr. John Carter (Poe's friend), "Edgar Poe's Last Night in Richmond." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, November 1902.